With cloud computing and virtualization becoming more mainstream by the day, 2010 will be the year in which infrastructure vendors selling a "complete stack" of virtualization hardware, software, and services battle it out with those selling individual, "best-of-breed" products. At stake: Who will w... Read More...

The next wave of virtualization will expand beyond servers into infrastructure virtualization and this drives the need to fully realize the advantages of advanced features for migration, business continuity and disaster recovery (DR). To do so cost effectively, virtual servers and desktops will requ... Read More...

Application performance will take a noticeable hit in 2010 as management process and technology lags behind aggressive infrastructure virtualization. Immature management practices and visibility gaps will become more apparent and noticed by application end users. As a result, organizations will dema... Read More...

It doesn't take an expert to predict that budgets will be relatively flat in 2010. And, as such, the old mantra of "do more with less" will be in full force. But lately there has been a corollary added to it: "And prove to us the value of our dollar spent." IT is no exception, especially as the CIO... Read More...

There's an old saying that you can tell who the pioneers are because they're the ones with the arrows in their backs. Granted, the pioneers don't always have a choice in the matter. You take the cards that you are dealt and you live with the technology that is available to you. But the second-movers... Read More...

DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, once again responds quickly to market demands, this time by stretching the size of its virtual disks from 2 Terabytes (TBs) to 1 Petabyte (PB).... Read More...

The industry is at a key inflection point in data center technology and in how vendors and enterprises react to these technology changes. Server virtualization kick-started nothing less than a complete rethinking of how computing workloads are provisioned, managed and moved and, in 2010, everything ... Read More...

Catbird, the pioneer in leading-edge security and compliance solutions for virtual and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Catbird vSecurity ranked amongst the top three vendors in the VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers’ Choice Awards Security Category behind VMware and CISCO. Catbird was the to... Read More...

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Surgient's CTO, Dave Malcolm, to talk about virtualization and the cloud. Surgient has been working with both technologies since 2001, long before most other companies out there, and even longer before the word "cloud" was coined as a term that most ... Read More...

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced independent research convincingly proves that VMware customers are drastically lowering operational expenditures (OpEx) with VMware solutions. VMware vSphere™ and the... Read More...

Virtualization has quickly evolved into a strategic enabling technology now widely deployed at all levels of the IT stack – from servers and desktops to networks, storage and applications. However, with rising data volumes, lack of cross-domain visibility, and shifting data center roles and responsi... Read More...

Quest Software, Inc. today announced the availability of the newest version of Quest vWorkspace, an award-winning desktop virtualization solution for simplifying the provisioning, management and use of virtual desktops. In addition to its support of the VMware platform, vWorkspace also now supports ... Read More...

2009 was a fast-moving year for the cloud space and cloud storage in particular. Since coming out of stealth mode early in 2009, we have had a growing conversation with customers, prospects, analysts and partners. Much of the industry was in "learn" mode for the first half of the year, trying to fin... Read More...

I'm returning from a trip to Cambridge-the home of the Citrix Xen development team who maintain Xen.org and our contributions to the Xen Client Initiative and Xen Client Platform, and who also produce Citrix XenServer and XenClient. Spending time with one of the world's best technical engineering t... Read More...

I hope that I am only remembered for the predictions that actually come true. Fortunately, few bad predictions are remembered for very long - surely the "global demand for four computers" prediction of the 1960s has faded from most memories. There is a lesson there, however, that technology develo... Read More...

The OpenNebula team announced that they have reached a stable state for the new 1.4 series of the OpenNebula Toolkit.
Downloads are available as source code as previous version but they also have created binary packages for RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE and Fedora.... Read More...

Novell today announced advancements in the joint development agreement between Novell and SAP AG. As part of the ongoing initiative, SAP has integrated PlateSpin Orchestrate, part of the virtualization and workload management suite from Novell, with the SAP NetWeaver Adaptive Computing Controller to... Read More...